Jan, everybody's pretty much correct. As best I recall, the original standard, if such a standard existed, was that of the EPSON FX line, its forerunners being the RX & MX and its children being the LQ series. The key was not so much was it Courier or whatever, but that it was MONOSPACE, i.e. NOT PROPORTIONAL. That is, each character was EXACTLY the same width, whether it be a lower-case "i" or an upper-case "O". To be honest, I don't think the addition of actual typefaces, out of the factory, occurred until the LQ series. The monospace "standard" was 10 characters per inch (cpi).
I used to sell 'em, way "back in the day". Back then, along with the question, "Is it IBM compatible?", we'd also hear, "Is it EPSON compatible?" If you need a current, "HP-compatible" font for approximation, based on what I just tried in M$-Word, it's Courier (New), 12pt. (Recall that points are the vertical units.) However, this font, at 12pt, means each character is 0.1" in width. If you actually need a dot matrix font, do a search. I actually found some recently, but, to be honest, I haven't unzipped any of them to ascertain whether or not they are actually fixed-pitch and/or 10cpi. HTH, Steve From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jan johansen Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:49pm 15:49 To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Dot Matrix Anyone now what the native font was for dot matrix printers? Was it something like Courier 12? I need to duplicate it as much as possible because this client uses several dot matrix printers (it will be a while before I convince him otherwise. TIA Jan
